Cooperative Agreement 15PJDP21GK03864MUMU

The City of Oakland Department of Violence Prevention (DVP) received a $999,998 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention under the STOP School Violence Program (CFDA 16.839). The funding will be used to expand the DVP's School Violence Intervention and Prevention (VIP) program by hiring three additional full-time violence interrupters. This will allow each of the seven high-risk Oakland schools participating in the...

The City of Oakland, California was awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation Program (CFDA 16.817). The grant will fund implementation of the Triangle Incident Response in East Oakland initiative over three years from October 2021 through September 2024. Through this initiative, the City of Oakland Department of Violence Prevention will coordinate a 24/7 rapid response...

The City of Oakland's Department of Violence Prevention (DVP) received a $2,000,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) under the Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CFDA 16.045). The funding will enable the DVP to expand and enhance Oakland's Ceasefire strategy by hiring three full-time life coaches for 33 months to deliver intensive life coaching services to 75 individuals at imminent risk of gun violence....

This $2,000,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (CFDA 16.045 - Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative) supports a comprehensive violence intervention and prevention program in Oakland, California. The grantee, Youth Alive (doing business as Caught In Crossfire), will use the funding to enhance their existing Caught in the Crossfire (CIC) and Violence Interruption (VI) programs, which provide support to survivors of...

Through a $500,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women under the Consolidated And Technical Assistance Grant Program to Address Children and Youth Experiencing Domestic and Sexual Violence and Engage Men and Boys as Allies (CFDA 16.888), the nonprofit organization Peace Over Violence will provide intervention and prevention services to participants in the Para Los Ninos Youth Workforce Services program in Los Angeles, California. The goal is to...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) under the Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CFDA 16.045) provides $1,000,000 in funding to the Moses-Weitzman Health System, Inc. to implement the "Heal Our Youth" program. The 10-week intervention combines restorative justice and mindfulness training for 240 high-risk youth in Brooklyn and the Bronx, New York, with the goal of reducing community violence exposure. The program, which...

The City of Oakland, California, through its Police Department (OPD), has been awarded a $646,000 Project Grant by the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to implement the Procedural Justice/Community Police Trust Project. The 2-year grant, effective from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2025, will support OPD's efforts to enhance police-community relations and trust through a series of reconciliation workshops. The project aims to repair historical tensions and foster...

The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance awarded $641,050 under the Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI) federal grant program to Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS) from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. BOSS will implement the Center of Excellence: Trauma Informed Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative to provide violence intervention and prevention services in Oakland, California,...

The U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) awarded a $2,000,000 Project Grant under the Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CFDA 16.045) to Adult Friends For Youth (AFY), a non-profit organization in Honolulu, Hawaii. The purpose of the "O Ke Ala Maluhia (The Peaceful Way)" project is to create safer communities by targeting high-risk youth prone to extreme violence and gang activity in disadvantaged communities in Oahu. The project...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) under the Children Exposed to Violence (CFDA 16.818) program provides $825,000 to the Contra Costa Family Justice Alliance (CCFJA) to build community and organizational capacity to increase equitable implementation of evidence-based practices that address the impacts of abuse and exposure to violence on children and youth from marginalized communities in Contra...